First Conference!
The Lifeboat Foundation is finally supporting our first conference. And
this conference is next month!
Along with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and the
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, we are sponsoring "Global
Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization" which will be
held November 14, 2008 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View,
California. This conference will precede the futurist mega-gathering
Convergence 08, November 15-16 at the same venue.
Learn more at http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinf...0081114/
Our Jamais Cascio, James J. Hughes, Mike Treder, and Eliezer Yudkowsky
will be participating.
Help us support this event at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/global.catastrophic.risks (We have already
raised $1,000 out of our goal of $2,500.)
If you wish to be a speaker at this event, please write to
Blog
Alexandra Carmichael joins our blog team with her first post at http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=171
More Events
There will be a panel discussion of leading experts on the future of AI
and the singularity at the 20 year anniversary celebration of the Swiss
AI Lab IDSIA, which will take place on October 24, 2008 in Palazzo dei
Congressi in the center of Lugano, Switzerland, during Ticino
Informatica 2008. Our Marco Dorigo and Jürgen Schmidhuber will be
participating.
Learn more at http://www.idsia.ch/Files/idsia20/Program.html
The Convergence08 Unconference on Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC)
technologies and their interactions will be held November 15-16, 2008,
at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Our Gregory Benford, Ben Goertzel, Aubrey de Grey, Terry Grossman,
Andrew Hessel, and Peter Norvig will be speaking.
Learn more at http://www.convergence08.org/
Our Jürgen Schmidhuber will be the keynote speaker at the AGI-09
conference on Artificial General Intelligence which will be held March
6-9, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia.
Our Eric B. Baum, Mark H. Bickhard, Wlodek Duch, Itamar Elhanany, Ben
Goertzel, J. Storrs "Josh" Hall, Marcus Hutter, Bruce Klein, Bert
Kappen, Randal Koene, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John Laird, Christian Lebiere,
Moshe Looks, Stephen Reed, Marco Wiering, and Mary-Anne Williams are
also participating.
Learn more at http://www.agi-09.org/
Articles
Read "How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?" at http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/...tinction
Growing Membership
Alexis Armstrong says "If a ten-year-old can donate, then what is the
excuse of you adults?" at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/donor.date.list#...rmstrong
Matt Duing has joined as an Executive Class member.
Remember that we are taking donations for
"Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization" at
https://lifeboat.com/ex/global.catastrophic.risks
Here are some of the recent donations/pledges we have received since
the last newsletter:
Chris Haley: $785,
Brian Cartmell: $500,
Humberto Castaneda: $200,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $170,
Michael Anissimov: $85,
Eric Bauswell: $85,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Jason Gaverick Matheny: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
C M Anderson: $25,
Vincent A. Cate: $25,
Adam Dobrin: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Adrian-Bodgan Morut (Adi): $25,
Peter Murray: $25,
Mark A. Walker: $25,
Anonymous: $20,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Alexander Braitberg: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
Joshua Fox: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Sylvia Engdahl: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Joseph P. Jackson III: $10,
Sheridan Layman: $10,
Marcel Lossi: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Kaj Sotala: $10,
Guy M. Turner: $2,
and Alexis Armstrong: $1.01.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
